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He produced Amy Winehouse's Frank , Nas's Stillmatic , and the Fugees' first album. Thirty-six tracks of a producer whose range is genuinely absurd. Salaam Remi, connector Salaam Remi is a New York producer, the son of session guitarist Van Gibbs, and one of the most quietly consequential figures in the last thirty years of Black music. He started young — remixing for Zhané and the Fugees in the early 1990s — and never settled into a single lane. His two defining relationships tell the story. With Nas , he produced across Stillmatic , God's Son , Hip Hop Is Dead and Life Is Good , providing the warm, sample-based, live-instrument sound that anchored Nas's later career. With Amy Winehouse , he produced most of Frank and a substantial part of Back to Black — and it was Remi who first understood that her voice belonged over jazz and soul arrangements rather than contemporary pop. He is also deeply rooted in Caribbean music, having worked exten...

Kelela makes R&B for a club that does not exist yet. Eighteen tracks from an artist who has spent a decade dismantling the genre and putting it back together wrong on purpose. The most formally adventurous singer in R&B Kelela Mizanekristos was born in Washington D.C. to Ethiopian parents, sang in jazz and progressive metal contexts before finding her lane, and emerged in 2013 with Cut 4 Me — a mixtape made with producers from the Night Slugs and Fade to Mind labels, the London and Los Angeles scenes then building a violent, metallic strain of club music out of grime, ballroom and UK funky. Putting a genuinely soulful R&B voice over that production was the whole innovation, and it has shaped a great deal of what followed. Her albums — Take Me Apart (2017) and Raven (2023) — extend the idea, with Raven in particular functioning as a treatise on Black women's relationship to dance music, whose history runs through house and techno and ...

Seventy-eight tracks aimed with real precision at 2am in 1997. This is not a nostalgia playlist so much as a working reconstruction of a specific feeling. The decade R&B got its own architecture The 1990s were when R&B stopped borrowing its production language from pop and built its own. Hip-hop drum programming, sung-through harmonies stacked six deep, basslines with actual movement, and an unembarrassed commitment to slow tempos. Radio supported it, labels invested in it, and singers were allowed to be album artists. What this mix captures specifically is the late-night end of that — not the singles that defined the era but the album tracks, the quiet storm cuts, the ones that came on after midnight. Seventy-eight tracks is four hours, and the sequencing holds a single mood across all of it. What to listen for Maxwell appears twice, including "Drowndeep: Hula" — from Embrya , the album critics disliked and time has vindicated — ...